This module will give a GP focused update on identifying and managing patients who self-harm:

Understanding why patients self-harm

Using the Manchester Self-Harm Rule to identify high-risk patients

Suicide risk in patients who have self-harmed

Psychological therapies for patients who self-harm

Prescribing antidepressants and antipsychotics for patients who self-harm

Using psychosocial interventions in primary care

Author

Dr Paul Moran is clinical senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London, honourary consultant psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the clinical academic lead on personality disorder for King's Health Partners

Dr Rohan Borschmann is a clinical psychologist and self-harm researcher at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London